{"id":3351,"date":"2012-12-05T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T07:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2016-12-05T07:35:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T07:35:57","slug":"when-the-water-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/when-the-water-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Water Goes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"When<\/a>
When the frost stops the water flow for a few days… how do we cope???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a wise man who to panic began
\nAnd he did not know what to do
\nFrom the frost and the snow, the mains it did blow
\nHe had no water for the shower, the sink or the loo <\/p>\n

So he thought to himself how to wash up the delph
\nOh the water. how it he would miss
\nBut the cistern was solved when he resolved
\nThat to fill it into it he would piss.<\/p>\n

So that’s how our chap solved having a crap
\nAnd how to flush it away
\nBut, oh alas, that idea he’d have to surpass
\nWashing the delph from day to day <\/p>\n

So he smashed the downpipe so that with a wipe
\nDishes rinsed by the rain would be cleaned
\nBut pans that here burned, he quickly learned
\nWere not so easy, or saucepans either he gleaned.<\/p>\n

And the to shower gravity provided the power
\nAnd poured over himself the dirty dishwater
\nHow everybody did stare at the carrots, potatoes and gravy in his hair
\nAnd they said the smell a thousand rats it would slaughter! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a wise man who to panic began And he did not know what to do From the frost and the snow, the mains it did blow He had no water for the shower, the sink or the loo So he thought to himself how to wash up the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,54],"tags":[3340,163,2345,1091,3339],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-poems","category-ireland","tag-cold-spell","tag-frost","tag-ireland","tag-water","tag-water-cut-off","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-S3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2080,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/flight-of-mad-sweeney\/","url_meta":{"origin":3351,"position":0},"title":"Flight of Mad Sweeney","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"He flies over where the Devil could not walk Singing his mournful song of despair The places he has been and all he as seen Since he came to here from there. 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